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As is our custom, Communication FUNdamentals blog takes each Friday to deliver some Friday Funnies in order to bring to the forefront the need for effective communication skills.  And this Friday is no different. Sometimes when folks communicate, we have no idea what they are trying to get across.  Other times we have an idea but it may not be the correct one.  Even though we may know what someone is trying to say, there are times when miscommunication can have a negative effect on someone's credibility or just cause enough confusion to warrant some unnecessary fine tuning at which point there is a possibility that it could cause some ill effects or hard feelings. As we head into 2010,...

Take Advantage of our Insanely LOW Co-op Class Fees! Now that Christmas is over, many of my homeschooling customers are readying themselves for next semester's activities and one of those activities might be a co op class.  If so this first offer is something you won't want to miss. Well this year was a terrible year for so many that Art of Eloquence decided to do some drastic things in order to help our customers in this most difficult financial year. We had always offered our co op classes some wonderful volume discounts, but this year we went completely NUTZ and offered our core communication studies for the ridiculously low license fee of only $10 per 10 students (with a...

You all just HAVE to listen in to this!  Tomorrow morning 8am PST/11am EST is a very special preview of the 5th Annual Say What You Mean Convention coming on February 3rd, 2010!  If you are not familiar with the convention, you can check out last year's here! The convention is an annual online event celebrating and teaching the fine Art of Eloquence in the style of the Great Communicator, Ronald Reagan!  Art of Eloquence finds, as Reagan did, that communicating in a godly way using humor goes a long way!  We celebrate communication around The Great Communicator's birthday each year with an all day series of live and recorded events, contests, prizes, prayer chat, workshops and seminars. This year...

It's that time of year again when people make New Year's Resolutions and don't keep them. "Lose 20 pounds by July." ....."Start a new business and become independently wealthy." ......................................"Organize my closet alphabetically and color code." ........................................................................................................."Quit smoking, again." I'm poking a little fun here, but these are all admirable goals.  The problem isn't that they cannot be accomplished, but that we aren't always serious when we make them.  And sometimes we aren't always making New Year's Resolutions about the things which are the most important to our lives. First, most of us want things, but we are not always that willing to do what it takes in order to accomplish them.  We want to lose weight as long as...

It's Mailbag Monday!  The last Monday of the month here at Communication FUNdamentals is always devoted to your comments and questions.  So it's time again for the mail.  Actually, I answer all emails as they come in, but each month I like to take a few and post them here because the answers to some of the issues and questions are beneficial to so many more. First I want to thank all of you who took the time to write in or to post here on my blog.  I get so much SPAM through here that it's nice to read comments from real people!  Keeps me going to know you appreciate what I write and that it is helping you...